I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G.K. ChestertonA child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting; a child always stands for the good militarism as against the bad. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression. The child's hero is never the man or boy who attempts by his mere personal force to extend his mere personal influence. In all boys' books, in all boys' conversation, the hero is one person and the bully the other. That combination of the hero and bully in one, which people now call the Strong Man or the Superman, would be simply unintelligible to any schoolboy....
But really to talk of this small human creature, who never picks up an umbrella without trying to use it as a sword, who will hardly read a book in which there is no fighting, who out of the Bible itself generally remembers the "bluggy" [bloody] parts, who never walks down the garden without imagining himself to be stuck all over with swords and daggers--to take this human creature and talk about the wickedness of teaching him to be military, seems rather a wild piece of humour. He has already not only the tradition of fighting, but a far manlier and more genial tradition of fighting than our own. No; I am not in favour of the child being taught militarism. I am in favour of the child teaching it.
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G.K. ChestertonTag: humor books mind wit attention
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G.K. ChestertonTag: adventure inconvenience perspectives
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
G.K. ChestertonThe way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G.K. ChestertonTag: love-loss
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
G.K. ChestertonThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G.K. ChestertonA good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G.K. ChestertonThere is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
G.K. ChestertonTag: human-nature
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